It is the cause and not merely the death that makes the martyr.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.
A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
And Adam said, This is the bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
'Cause grace and virtue are within Prohibited degrees of kin; And therefore no true saint allows, They shall be suffer'd to espouse.
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one.
You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.
Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an art. [Lat., Aegri quia non omnes convalescunt, idcirco ars nulla medicina est.]
Over and over again mediocrity is promoted because real worth isn't to be found.
I have no regrets because I know I did my bestâall I could do.
Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.
When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
The trouble you can get into, just cause you want 5, 000 bucks.
Shall you cry because roses have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses?
Don't cry because it's over, Smile because it happened.
It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe --though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.
But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will.
Many a man fails to become a thinker only because his memory is too good.
Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.
Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex.
I hate women because they always know where things are.
Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women don't have what it takes. -Clare Boothe Luce.
The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me, What if a man tries to be part of the homeâwill the woman let him? I answer yes. Because then he becomes one of the children.